For most, body art is a personal choice, but Target 7 has learned tattoos have become weapons in a new kind of attacked. Both women said gang members forcibly tattooed their bodies over and over. Neither victim wanted to be identified for safety reasons.

"We were jumped and basically threatened that if we weren't going to do what they said, then that would be it, and they took us and tattooed us," said one victim.

The women are strangers who share a terrifying story. One is a young teenager, and both are still afraid.

"He kidnapped me, held me hostage and tattooed his name all over my body," said another victim. "I feel trapped in my own body, like I feel like it's not mine. I feel like I'm branded and he got what he wanted and he owns me."

Target 7 has been told that gang members have no bounds when it comes to tattoos. They'll tattoo victims' hands, arms, chests and even worse.

Dawn Maestas works with victims to help remove their attacker's work.

"These are not tattoos. This is a form of branding and mutilating a victim and it just so happened that they used a tattoo gun to achieve this process," Maestas said. "Can you imagine what that does to a woman to have somebody put his name across an area, and what that does for a woman to think she can ever have another relationship again, and have somebody staring at that the whole time?"

The women who contacted Target 7 don't believe they're the only victims.

"I believe there's a lot more women that just don't want to come forward with it," said one of the women.

Several members of the gang unit said they haven't heard of gang members tattooing victims in Albuquerque. They said they'd like to talk to the victims.

"Right now, this is not anything in the last 10 years that the gang detectives can say that they've seen happen," said Albuquerque Police Department Sgt. Trish Hoffman.

The district attorney's office said there is at least one case working its way through the court system.

"I've seen two cases, one I'm currently prosecuting and one that has been adjudicated, where victims were forcibly tattooed at the hands of their abusers," said Assistant District Attorney Edga Sprague.

Sprague said the attacks on her clients were brutal and humiliating.

"(In) both cases, they had tattoos specifically on genitalia, breasts, genital area, buttocks," she said.

Target 7 has learned that two of the victims knew their attackers, but another victim came forward claiming she did not.

APD reiterated that they have never heard of gangs randomly tattooing victims.

"We're not saying it never happened, but if in fact we are given information, it's certainly something we'd want to know, and we'd definitely follow up on it," Hoffman said.

If you have been forcibly tattooed and would like to have your tattoos removed you can call Lazarus at 505-220-6629.

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